But when there is specific work for me, then there is no definite time for it. During the day it might be half an hour, one hour, two hours — or some days I do not have to work at all. It is like this. I am so arranging it that during that time of my working, Kaka might not cause some disturbance.
As Age explains: "It is evident from Baba's remarks that during the period of his seclusion he was working for his mandali, lovers and the whole world. In the Universal mind of the Avatar is contained the finite mind of every soul in creation, and the Universal Mind is fully aware, every moment, of the thoughts of every individual mind. During this period, Baba's work was concentrated on individual minds whose thoughts reached his Universal Mind. He was expressing this when he made that statement."
There were rain showers at noon, but the sky cleared by evening. Again, on the evening of 7 July, Kaka brought this message from Baba:
Buttermilk was taken twice today but there is still a burning sensation and even water cannot be taken. First, there are the thoughts. Secondly, the spiritual work has to be done. Thirdly, the fast and along with these there is the burning sensation — all together.
On Friday, 8 July 1949, Kaka brought the following message at 11:30 A.M., which he wrote on his slate:
Baba has sent word that he is taking no food and constantly thoughts come to him. He sits in the cabin. At night he is uncomfortable on the bed. The cabin roof strikes his head daily, but today the upper portion of the door of the cabin struck him so violently that he felt giddy.
At noon Baba sat in the adjoining room and motioned to Kaka to clean his cabin. Fifteen minutes later, Kaka came out of the seclusion area with this dictated message:
Do not give these knocks on the head any supernatural interpretation, as our dear old blessed Chanji would have done out of his deep underlying love for me. These hard knocks on the skull show us how brave the real yogis must be who live in dark, low-roofed caves in remote wild jungles.
At 5:00 P.M. Baba drank a little rose syrup mixed in buttermilk, a little water and juice from black grapes. These past nine days during the second phase were to be the most crucial period of Baba's seclusion.
Baba later revealed, "No one except myself and God knows what I went through during those nine days."